top 50% hacker news stories for 2015-06-18

How Naughty Dog Fit Crash Bandicoot into 2MB of RAM on the PS1

http://www.quora.com/How-did-game-developers-pack-entire-games-into-so-little-memory-twenty-five-years-ago/answer/Dave-Baggett?srid=z9ZA&share=1

11 years ago

934 upvotes – 247 comments

Inceptionism: Going Deeper into Neural Networks

http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2015/06/inceptionism-going-deeper-into-neural.html

11 years ago

797 upvotes – 156 comments

Stripe Is the New PayPal

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9738717

11 years ago

679 upvotes – 303 comments

Why Greet Apple's Swift 2.0 With Open Arms?

http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2015/06/15/apple-is-not-our-friend.html

11 years ago

421 upvotes – 313 comments

Redis re-implemented in Rust

https://github.com/seppo0010/rsedis

11 years ago

★ 1.8k Rust BSD-2-Clause
400 upvotes – 106 comments

Diet that mimics fasting appears to slow aging

http://news.usc.edu/82959/diet-that-mimics-fasting-appears-to-slow-aging/

11 years ago

301 upvotes – 291 comments

All Systems Go for NASA's Mission to Jupiter Moon Europa

http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/all-systems-go-for-nasas-mission-to-jupiter-moon-europa

11 years ago

249 upvotes – 102 comments

Google, Microsoft, Mozilla and Others Team Up to Launch WebAssembly

http://techcrunch.com/2015/06/17/google-microsoft-mozilla-and-others-team-up-to-launch-webassembly-a-new-binary-format-for-the-web/?ncid=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29

11 years ago

248 upvotes – 150 comments

What Dads' Play Does for Kids

http://www.wsj.com/articles/what-dads-play-does-for-kids-1434476561

11 years ago

247 upvotes – 119 comments

Why Facebook Failed Our Censorship Test

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/06/why-facebook-failed-our-censorship-test

11 years ago

247 upvotes – 37 comments

Google Is Now Listing SourceForge as a Malicious Site

http://i.imgur.com/FAv6VdV.png

11 years ago

235 upvotes – 56 comments

“Land initial Rust MP4 parser and unit tests”

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1175322

11 years ago

217 upvotes – 86 comments

My Hardest Bug Ever (2013)

http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/DaveBaggett/20131031/203788/My_Hardest_Bug_Ever.php

11 years ago

187 upvotes – 29 comments

Google listening in to your room shows importance of privacy defense in depth

https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2015/06/google-chrome-listening-in-to-your-room-shows-the-importance-of-privacy-defense-in-depth/

11 years ago

178 upvotes – 121 comments

“Fashion Is Hard. PostgreSQL Is Easy” [video]

https://tech.zalando.com/blog/watch-fashion-is-hard-postgresql-is-easy/

11 years ago

154 upvotes – 135 comments

What Is 'What Is Code?'

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/what-is-what-is-code

11 years ago

146 upvotes – 55 comments

The Tragedy of the Common Lisp, Or, Why Large Languages Explode

https://esdiscuss.org/topic/the-tragedy-of-the-common-lisp-or-why-large-languages-explode-was-revive-let-blocks

11 years ago

144 upvotes – 134 comments

The Little Manual of API Design (2008) [pdf]

http://www4.in.tum.de/~blanchet/api-design.pdf

11 years ago

142 upvotes – 25 comments

Zero-Overhead Metaprogramming

http://stefan-marr.de/papers/pldi-marr-et-al-zero-overhead-metaprogramming/

11 years ago

141 upvotes – 22 comments

The Man Behind the Curtain: Commercial games with source code releases

http://www.codersnotes.com/notes/the-man-behind-the-curtain

11 years ago

137 upvotes – 20 comments

Go has a debugger and it's awesome

https://blog.cloudflare.com/go-has-a-debugger-and-its-awesome/

11 years ago

124 upvotes – 69 comments

On Interviewing Software Engineers

http://www.zdfs.com/code/2015/on-interviewing-software-engineers

11 years ago

114 upvotes – 99 comments

Gor – A simple http traffic replication tool written in Go

https://github.com/buger/gor/

11 years ago

★ 19.2k Go
105 upvotes – 23 comments

The Failures of “Intro to TDD”

http://blog.testdouble.com/posts/2014-01-25-the-failures-of-intro-to-tdd.html

11 years ago

100 upvotes – 54 comments

The strange expertise of burglars

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150618-the-strange-expertise-of-burglars

11 years ago

100 upvotes – 69 comments

Apple has published a great free learn to code course for on GitHub

https://medium.com/ios-os-x-development/apple-has-published-a-great-free-learn-to-code-course-for-swift-on-github-feb5e4d70691

11 years ago

99 upvotes – 20 comments

The most underrated feature in Python 3

http://blog.ionelmc.ro/2014/08/03/the-most-underrated-feature-in-python-3/

11 years ago

96 upvotes – 17 comments

Ellen Pao owes Kleiner Perkins $276,000 for lawsuit costs: judge

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/06/17/us-kleiner-lawsuit-idUSKBN0OX2WY20150617

11 years ago

92 upvotes – 160 comments

FlowerChecker: tell me what this plant is

http://blog.flowerchecker.com/post/116216878053/flowerchecker-tell-me-what-is-this-plant

11 years ago

90 upvotes – 23 comments

The New Aquaris E5 HD Ubuntu Edition

http://www.bq.com/gb/aquaris-e5-ubuntu-edition

11 years ago

86 upvotes – 18 comments

Airbnb reportedly raising $1B at $24B valuation

http://www.businessinsider.com/airbnb-reportedly-raising-1-billion-at-24-billion-valuation-2015-6?op=1

11 years ago

84 upvotes – 100 comments

Traffic Jams in JavaScript

http://bit-player.org/2015/traffic-jams-in-javascript

11 years ago

80 upvotes – 1 comments

Simple 4-bit/1 Hz virtual computer for learning purposes

https://github.com/gto76/comp-cpp

11 years ago

★ 344 C++ MIT
80 upvotes – 35 comments

Is It Better to Rent or Buy?

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/06/17/upshot/100000002894612.app.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur

11 years ago

76 upvotes – 168 comments

The rise of Africa’s super vegetables

http://www.nature.com/news/the-rise-of-africa-s-super-vegetables-1.17712

11 years ago

75 upvotes – 27 comments

Military's 15-year quest for perfect radio is a blueprint for failing big (2012)

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/06/how-to-blow-6-billion-on-a-tech-project/

11 years ago

73 upvotes – 62 comments

Startup Unleashes Its Clone of Google's Knowledge Graph

http://www.wired.com/2015/06/startup-shares-google-knowledge-graph-clone-everyone/

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 15 comments

Meta-analysis of heritability of human traits based on 50 years of twin studies [pdf]

http://www.gwern.net/docs/2015-polderman.pdf

11 years ago

72 upvotes – 24 comments

A query complexity breakthrough

http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=2325

11 years ago

69 upvotes – 15 comments

A Code of Conduct for the Go community

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/golang-nuts/sy-YcVPADjg/bcO6LAr29EIJ

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 70 comments

Explanation for nightmare computer-generated picture haunting Reddit

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/this-mystery-photo-haunting-reddit-appears-to-be-image-recognition-gone-very-weird

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 23 comments

Chinese Buyers Replace Canadians as Top Foreign Buyers of U.S. Homes

http://www.wsj.com/articles/chinese-buyers-replace-canadians-as-top-foreign-buyers-of-u-s-homes-1434580337?mod=e2fb

11 years ago

68 upvotes – 32 comments

California Is Sitting on the Solution to Its Drought Problem

http://www.fastcoexist.com/3044988/california-is-sitting-on-the-solution-to-its-drought-problem

11 years ago

64 upvotes – 54 comments

Levenshtein automata can be simple and fast

http://julesjacobs.github.io/2015/06/17/disqus-levenshtein-simple-and-fast.html

11 years ago

63 upvotes – 22 comments

Inside 'Hackerville,' Romania's Infamous Cyber Crime Hub [video]

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/inside-hackerville-romanias-infamous-cyber-crime-hub

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 20 comments

The Battle of Waterloo, as it happened on June 18, 1815

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/battle-of-waterloo/11676475/The-Battle-of-Waterloo-as-it-happened-on-June-18-1815-live.html

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 34 comments

With regards to Apple Music

http://beggars.com/group/pressrelease/90/with-regards-to-apple-music

11 years ago

58 upvotes – 44 comments
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